Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1911 — Page 10

I Be Patriotic To Yourself I As Well | Drop in tomorrow and buy that || which is good for your summer’s M work. Have that peace of mind I which comes with each good act. I Resolve To Help Yourself I Plow your corn as you ride-don’t H U believe you are getting efficiency LI because you are working harder | than your neighbor. Get the machine habit. I LAMAN & LEE H Sellers Os Good Goods □r: : • /'ir-it — r 1 .. ]CL2..„.,jq [] AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES H We have added a complete line of up-to-the- I. f l minute Sundries and can supply you with , , j Tires H Tire Tools Lamps Jacks Tire Testers | Repair kits Carbite q I Pumps Lamp Tubing Oils Batteries n = | SCHAFER HARDWARE CO. ’ We Save You Money d _ • ni in ' ■ a ii—ir~~ —-if '■ 11

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SOME WAR TALES I (Continued from Page 3.) man's army in Tennessee. But we had been with General Stillwell so long that he had become attached to us and he couldn't let us go without some words of encouragement. So we were called out on dress parade, then formed in a hollow square and I presented with a testament by the j Ladies' Christian Commission of Kokomo. Colonel Tom was a fine orator and be couldn't let us go without a speech to cheer us up as we were so soon to leave our homes and loved ones and well do I remember a part of that speech. It was full of comfort and good cheer. He said in part: "Soldiers of the 130th Indiana, you do not need to dread to leave your native state. You are going to the sun ny fields of the south, there where the 1 orange trees are perpetually in bloom, where you can fill your haversacks with peaches as you march along the road"—in fact, he pictured us a. kind of Fourth of July picnic and we were anxious for the land of sunshine, oranges and peaches. We Joined General Sherman at Cl)a>leston, Tenn., had our first scrap with Longstreet a few days later at Ringgold, Georgia, and were were on our way to Atlanta in less than six weeks after Colonel Tom's speech. Were in front of Nesacca and fighting like veterans. On Sunday evening we made a fierce charge on the rebel works and were ordered to support the 23rd battery at the end of the charge, which was just at the brow of the hill. We were ordered to lie down, which we did without the second order, the 23rd battery immediately to our right, and there amidst the roar of the cannon, the rattle of musketry, with rebel bullets plowing the earth close to our noses, Jim Barton, a member of my company, remembered Colonel Stillwell's speech at Kokomo and in about the same tone cried out: "Say, boys, if any of you want any peaches, come on and get them." “Always Room at the Top.” More than one veteran of the present day laughs at his part in the following “forage.” The officer in charge' of the boys had strictly forbidden foraging for food and other provisions. On one occasion, however, the demand for wood with which to build a fire was imperative and the “boys” petitioned that they be allowed to take the rails of a fence nearby to feed the flames. The official with a twinkle in his,eyes, and knowing the great need,! replied: “Well, boys, you may have

some rails, but see to it that you take none but the "top" rails. Os course there were 'top' rails as long as the fence lasted. "All's Fair In ar." T. R. .Moore, one of the present officers of the local G. A. R., who enlisted in the 164th Ohio regiment, is perhaps one of the youngest “veterans” I* of the bunch, as he was less than eighteen years of age when discharged at the close of the war in August, his . eighteenth birtnday anniversary not coming until October 18th. He serv■ed the last year in the war, having I enlisted at a time when there was a great need for men. When the recruiting officer asked him his age, he replied that he would be nineteen in October," and was mustered in without challenge. “Well, so I would be nineteen in October,” Mr. Moore said in recounting the event, “but I didn't say I October of which year. Anyhow, all's fair In war.” Fright a Great Incentive. T. R. Moore tells of a "Dutchman” in his company who struck the truetoned keynote of that which is sometimes mistaken for great prowess. It was at the time of General Early’s raid on Washington, and their regiment was only seven miles away. The Dutchman got pretty well out on the skirmishing line and some of the boys called out to him to be careful or the rebels would get him. “O,” said the undaunted little Dutchman, “I ain't afraid. 1 can run like H — when I get scared.” Two “Jonathan and David” Veterans. The “Crego and Rice" post G. A. R. at Attica, Ohio, says T. R. Moore, was named for two comrades of the 7th Ohio regiment, who were much like the Jonathan and David of the Bible. They were inseparable from childhood and had pledged themselves never to separate until death. It so happened that they were both killed at the same time in a battle at Winchester, Va., being the first ones of the regiment to fall. In accordance with the custom of naming the post for the first ones who fell in battle, and also because of the life-long comradeship of these two members, the post was named for both. McLain Was a Brave Soldier. While the old soldiers are by no means stingy with their praises for all the boys who went from Adams county, or nearly so, they all agree that no man marched out from here who returned with more deserving honor than did Lieutenant Henry McLain of the eighty-ninth, who as quarter-mas-ter, aide de camp, and on special duty, did valiant work for the cause. It is I

said that at the battle of Nashville, his

leadership won the day and secured for the officer in charge a brigadier generalship. Many From Other States. Among the veterans now living in this section are many men who served during the war. enlisting from other states. Some of these are not members of the Sam Henry post, and thus their names have been omitted. One of these Is J. T. Coots, who first enlisted In Company 1, 27th Ohio, in April, 1861. He was discharged the following February for disability and re-enlisted three months later in Com pany E. 99th Ohio, serving until the war was over. He was in thirty-five battles, including Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Franklin and others. MR. GREATHOUSE Has Been Making Good as Superintendent of Public Instruction. MISS BAILOR NAMED For a Place in That Office — Adams County Folk at the Capital. Indianapolis, Ind., May 30 —Among the departments of state that deserve all that is being said of it, is that presided over by the superintendent of public instruction, Mr. Charles A. Greathouse. Following as he did that eminent scholar and instructor, Superintendent Aley, he is measuring well to the mark of excellence and this with his persona! popularity eas ily makes him the coming man in Indiana. Instead of showing any signs of receding, the schools of Indiana are fast gaining in excellence and merit, much of this dinction being due to the knowledge and progressive spirit inculcated into the work by the present superintendent of public instruction. He spends much time in traveling over the state getting into touch with the instructors, the methods in use in the various sections of the state, and his kindly suggestions are being taken at their face value, resulting to the credit and betterment of school conditions everywhere. Beginning the first of June, Miss Bailor, of the Wabash schools, and by far one of the best

school women of * he place with this » depart,he have" "barge the prer “ O s he course of study so" oration of th ()n |be of j nut forth every effoit “ 4 v . .s.t thev will succeed. Mr. tlon but that t W mflny Greathouse has recently of the schools in ‘be southern part or ’the state, being in Spencer. Gibson, Vigo and Vanderburg counties, and ring the last week spent several Sv, in county. The manuSpt. April have been completed an d sent out, the number of manuscripts sent in for that month being fourteen hundred, and out of that number something like nine hundred passed This departmen is becoming be one of the good financial departments of the state. After paying a expenditures they tuned> the treasury for January $426.20. Febr ary, 1418.29; March, 3354.51, and April, 3447.46. But under the supervision of Mr. Greathouse we may ex pect to see great things accomplished and our public schools progress as they have never progressed before. Among those from Adam, county in the city during the past week were Hon. D. E. Smith of Decatur, and Hon. S. W. Hale of Geneva, both being here for the purpose of attending the sessions of the grand lodge of Masons. H. M. Romberg, another Adams county resident, also spent some time here during last week, and while here settled some business of importance with the park board and other officials of the city. The bride and groom arrived. Dr. Earl G. Coverdale and wife are here spending a week with relatives of the latter. Since arriving they have been feasted and invited to many society events, in which they have been the guests of honor. They are having a happy time of it, and secretly are enJoving how nicely they put one over on their friends at home, having been married and were permitted to leave the city without even a baby ribbon being tied to their baggage. We are saying this, thinking that their friends will better know how to deal with them when they return. It is never

too late to do good, you know. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan are c oa . ing from Richmond with Mr. and Mrs p. W. Smith to see the races. sides these, many other, are e JhK , ed from Adams county. Great pren» ations are being made to enteruin the throng of people expected on thi occasion. Hotel accommodations w " sold out months ago, and now a reau has been established which w ii secure accommodations at prtVa ‘ homes, and in this manner every on* that comes will be taken care of * L. Q. r

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